“The goal is to cover everybody,” Anticouni told the
Santa Barbara Independent. “If people want to bring their own action, Four Seasons might be confronted with another 150-plus employees who each have their own types of claims. It would be a logistics nightmare for Four Seasons.”
Anticouni plans to go to mediation with the Four Seasons at the end of April to retrieve the money if the hotel agrees to treat the case as a class-action lawsuit.
Typically, a court would determine the demanded fees for roughly a third of what the attorney obtains for a client, but due to the size of the case, Anticouni would accept half the amount, he said.